[…] mercy on the efforts of human deity personified by Prometheus—reason, intelligence, and enlightenment—to wrest control of the world. Perhaps, in Zeus’ blind vengeance against Prometheus for bestowing fire on mortals, the ancient Greeks personified […]
[…] been reiterated in such works as Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1958, p. 106 and in John L. Lund, The Church and the Negro, 1967, pp. […]
[…] I believe, a theodicy which can make a crucial contribution to Mormonism’s emergence as a mature, compassionate world religion, one able to contribute in important ways to God’s efforts to save all his children, […]
[…] refinement, expanded this idea in the Messenger and Advocate. In an article called “The Saints and the World,” published in 1836, he outlined the work of building Zion and posed a question: “Now let […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2003): 177–192 In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I […]
[…] humankind sinks in time of war, but as an increasingly international church committed to sending missionaries into all the countries of the world, who could dispute the advantages if all those countries were at peace?
[…] at Carolyn, feeling a certain pleasure in having gotten her full attention. “I mean, what kind of world is it where people get by on dumb luck and good graces? Not a world I […]
[…] the band launched into “A Tout le Monde,” a song about a man saying goodbye to the world at the end of his life. Jesus leaned over to Tregan and shouted over the sound […]
[…] long-awaited follow-up to that article, a 705-page book, has been printed by Signature Books, of which Smith is the publisher. In September 2009, the John Whitmer Historical Association awarded it Best Book of the Year.
[…] the glories and privileges that greet an operative who helped fly a jet into New York’s towering World Trade Center. Upon his arrival in heaven the terrorist discovers to his pleasure that, for his […]